Critical Perspectives on Art, Politics and Culture

MAY 2018

Ernesto Pujol

ERNESTO PUJOL is a performance artist and social choreographer. He is the author of Sited Body, Public Visions: silence, stillness & walking as Performance Practice (McNally Jackson Books, SOHO), and the upcoming title: The Art of Walking, Reflections on Socially Engaged Practice. Pujol lives full-time in Old Chatham, a rural community in Northeastern New York state.

OCT 2017 | Art

A hurricane of entitlement flooded America long before the Trump era, perverting creative training and arts funding earlier than this stormy political season. American entitlement is so perverse that folks not only feel entitled to abundance, but to waste their abundance—from the misguided logic of buying more than they need to throwing away perfectly fine objects because not wanting them anymore is reason enough to chuck.

NOV 2017 | Books

Kasuo Ishiguro, a Japanese-born British novelist, has been awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in literature. By nature, I confess to not being a fan of celebrity or hero. I admire, study and respect ethical people of insight and daring achievement.